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born 1976 England

Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng (born 1976 in Hampstead, UK) is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. As a mathematician, her speciality is category theory.

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Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.

How to Bake Pi: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths (2015)

This is the point of understanding the abstract structures inside things.

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

The trouble with this is that nothing behaves logically.

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

Math, unfortunately is presented in this very ingressive way, despite the fact that when you get to the research level, it's very congressive.

Eugenia Cheng: To Infinity - and Beyond (2017)

I don't believe that one should have anything without sharing it, and that includes knowledge, money, food, love...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

We will never be able to encompass everything by rationality alone... [T]his is a necessary and beautiful aspect of human existence.

How to Bake Pi (2015)

I am going to show that mathematics... is precisely "that which is easy."

How to Bake Pi (2015)

The work I do is totally abstract... [T]he idea is that it will help other people understand things that they can then do in the world...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I believe very strongly in helping other people understand things. There's no point knowing things if you don't help other people know...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

It... [abstract structure] is a beautiful thing, and sometimes all that matters is that it's a beautiful thing.

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I wrote this book because I love maths, and I love food... [S]adly most people love food more than they love maths...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I'd like to talk about abstract mathematics and my experience of making it... palatable to people who may have had very bad experiences of it...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I make it my business to help everybody understand these things a bit more, because... they're very misunderstood...

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

I'm not interested in playing sport... because I hate the idea of losing, and I'm not interested in winning, so there's no upside and there's only potential downside...

Eugenia Cheng: To Infinity - and Beyond (2017)

A lot of programs for good mathematicians at a young age are... competitions and... problem solving... and Olympiads, and that is very ingressive...

Eugenia Cheng: To Infinity - and Beyond (2017)

The point is to help us. It's not there to cause people pain. The point of abstraction is to clear out the fluff in order... to see more clearly what's actually going on.

Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

Now, if you imagine drawing a circle in the air with a lightsaber, the surface you make is a vector bundle over a circle. The idea is that for each point in the circle, you now have an entire vector, that is, a line given by the lightsaber at that instant.

How to Bake Pi (2015)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eugenia Cheng (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.